Posted on 03/29/2006 1:36:38 PM PST by MikeA
It is not only in Tehran and Damascus that the game of "waiting Bush out" is played with determination. In recent visits to several regional capitals, this writer was struck by the popularity of this new game from Islamabad to Rabat. The general assumption is that Mr. Bush's plan to help democratize the heartland of Islam is fading under an avalanche of partisan attacks inside the U.S. The effect of this assumption can be witnessed everywhere.
In Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf has shelved his plan, forged under pressure from Washington, to foster a popular front to fight terrorism by lifting restrictions against the country's major political parties and allowing their exiled leaders to return. There is every indication that next year's elections will be choreographed to prevent the emergence of an effective opposition.
Even in Iraq the sentiment that the U.S. will not remain as committed as it has been under Mr. Bush is producing strange results. While Shiite politicians are rushing to Tehran to seek a reinsurance policy, some Sunni leaders are having second thoughts about their decision to join the democratization process. "What happens after Bush?" demands Salih al-Mutlak, a rising star of Iraqi Sunni leaders. The Iraqi Kurds have clearly decided to slow down all measures that would bind them closer to the Iraqi state. Again, they claim that they have to "take precautions in case the Americans run away."
There are more signs that the initial excitement created by Mr. Bush's democratization project may be on the wane. Saudi Arabia has put its national dialogue program on hold and has decided to focus on economic rather than political reform. Tunisia and Morocco, too, have joined the game by stopping much-advertised reform projects while Islamist radicals are regrouping and testing the waters at all levels.
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...
What I posted here is just the most galling part of the piece, but read the rest and you'll see just how terrible the damage has been to US policy in the Middle East all because of the Democrats' obsessive power mongering. These are the people polls say Americans want to put back in charge of Congress! We have to use this article and everything in our arsenal to cause our fellow citizens to see sense and to realize the damage these loathsome Democrats are doing to our efforts to end terror and tyranny in the Middle East.
The article is available on the Wall Street Journal's free site, Opinion Journal.com, so click the link above or right here. You don't need to be a subscriber: http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110008154
And not only from the leftist scum. FR seems to be populated by many pining for Bush to be impeached. Uhg.
Let's hope the Republicans make this a key off-year election issue, and have the balls to start calling these Democrats the treasonous b@st@ards they are.
The Dems and MSM have never been held responsible for the two million dead in SE Asia after the '75 pullout either. That's the way it works with them. As long as the MSM is part and parcel of the Democrat Party there's been no one to hold them to account, at least until now.
Thank God for the internet. How long til the Dems try and close us down?
These FR naysayers remind me of "Wormtongue."
"...Thank God for the internet. How long til the Dems try and close us down?..."
Don't know the answer to that but you can bet the farm that the dimoCRACKS ARE doing their dead level best to shut it down. That will NEVER happen!
Whoops...for a moment their I thought you were another apologist for Bush and Republican traitors in the Senate on the issue of illegal immigration...
I say good riddenance to the Republicans and Bush...
Don't let the door hit you in the a$$ on the way out traitors...
These psychos still can't get over the port deal. It's so sad to see conservatives victimized by their own ignorance. They've turned into rampant Bush haters just like the nitwits on the left, all over an issue they never could wrap their feeble, simple minds around.
Or Chicken Little
Sure, put the Democrats back in power who will throw the doors wide open on the border and retreat from the war on terror not to mention hike your taxes into the stratosphere like Jon Corzine in New Jersey and Mark Warner in Virginia after both promised in their campaigns not to hike taxes. You're a genius.
If we allow them to succeed this time, they will get tens of millions of people killed, and a great many of them will be Americans, not poor Asian peasants.
I think if he REALLY wanted to find the pulse of America, he should have come to the interior Red States.
Soon. Be very afraid.
And watch out for McCain.
They're full of just as much hatred as the DUers and spout the same talking points.
Incidentally the Republicans are bleeding us at a far faster clip than one drop at a time.
I am sick and tired of the 'Lesser of two evils' argument. Won't work on me and it won't work the rapidly increasing group who are sick and tired of the status quo...
Bush is Rino...and I will not be voting Republican this next time around...
Problem is that neither party is supporting our interests anymore. The Republicans are traitors in regards to the borders and spending rediculous amounts of money, and the Democrats just plain suck. We need someone who will stay strong in Iraq and Afghanistan but support our interests at home.
Success in any conflict does not go to the self-serving and faint of heart.
I often wonder how many of them are conservatives/libertarians who are genuinely frustrated because President Bush and congress haven't done everything they think should be done, and how many are trolls pretending to be Freepers.
Um, you're replying to a person that has Michael Moore links on his homepage. For some reason, this is now "OK", which is why I don't really post much anymore...
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